Fortieth Delamotte illustration for the seventh monthly instalment of W.
Harrison Ainsworth's Windsor Castle. An Historical Romance, in
the February 1843 number of Ainsworth's Magazine; Book the
Second, "Herne the Hunter," Chapter IX,​"Showing how Morgan Fenwolf escaped from the
Garter Tower," p. 127.

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Passage Illustrated

Meanwhile, the prisoner had been removed to the lower chamber of the Garter
Tower. This fortification, one of the oldest in the castle, being coeval with the Curfew
Tower, is now in a state of grievous neglect and ruin. Unroofed, unfloored, filled with
rubbish, masked by the yard walls of the adjoining habitations, with one side entirely
pulled down, and a great breach in front, it is solely owing to the solid and rock-like
construction of its masonry that it is indebted for partial preservation. Still,
notwithstanding its dilapidated condition, and that it is the mere shell of its former
self, its appearance is highly picturesque. The walls are of prodigious thickness, and
the deep embrasures within them are almost perfect; while a secret staircase may still be
tracked partly round the building. Amid the rubbish choking up its lower chamber grows a
young tree, green and flourishing — a type, it is to be hoped, of the restoration
of the structure!

Conducted to a low vaulted chamber in this tower, the prisoner was cast
upon its floor — for he was still hound hand and foot-and left alone and in
darkness. But he was not destined to continue in this state long. The door of the dungeon
opened, and the guard ushered in the tall Franciscan friar. [Chapter IX. "Showing how
Morgan Fenwolf escaped from the Garter Tower," pp. 124-125]

References

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Windsor Castle. An
Historical Romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank and Tony Johannot. With
designs on wood by W. Alfred Delamotte. London: Routledge, 1880. Based on the Henry
Colburn edition of 1844.